My name is Zari Harat, and I have studied visual art and art education in Chicago, USA, Bombay and Cochin, India, as well as in Paris and Berlin.

My chosen place of residency has been Berlin since 1981, with a three-year break to San Francisco in 1986. My work reflects my travels, cultural exchanges, and adventures. Additionally, I have participated in a variety of group and solo shows of my work.

Currently, my work is mixed media on paper. Before the Corona lockdown, I worked on canvas using primarily acrylics or mixed media. Now, I am rediscovering paper, all types of paper, and sometimes my encounters with print and illustration are visible. The materials that I choose are usually various sizes of paper, ink, gouache, pastels, chalks, oil, water, wax, watercolours, and other pigments. There are stories in my paintings and I am a visual storyteller. There are many questions that emerge, which can be evident in the titles of my pieces.

The topics I engage in are mostly inclusivity, mutual acceptance, respect for others, as well as allowing my ever-emerging language of imagery to merge and emerge. Travel and art residencies come and go, as well as life as a mother, an immigrant, a healing student, and a ceaseless learner, are my visual nutrition.